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+## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{h} =} barh (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{style})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{xb}, @var{yb}] =} barh (@dots{})
+## Given two vectors of x-y data, @code{bar} produces a horizontal bar graph.
+##
+## If only one argument is given, it is taken as a vector of y-values
+## and the x coordinates are taken to be the indices of the elements.
+##
+## If @var{y} is a matrix, then each column of @var{y} is taken to be a
+## separate bar graph plotted on the same graph. By default the columns
+## are plotted side-by-side. This behavior can be changed by the @var{style}
+## argument, which can take the values 'group' (the default), or 'stack'.
+##
+## If two output arguments are specified, the data are generated but
+## not plotted.  For example,
+##
+## @example
+## barh (x, y);
+## @end example
+##
+## @noindent
+## and
+##
+## @example
+## [xb, yb] = barh (x, y);
+## plot (xb, yb);
+## @end example
+##
+## @noindent
+## are equivalent.
+## @seealso{bar, plot, semilogx, semilogy, loglog, polar, mesh, contour,
+## stairs, xlabel, ylabel, title}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function varargout = barh (varargin)
+  varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
+  [varargout{:}] = __bar__ (false, "barh", varargin{:});
+endfunction